He's not talking about you. Unless the US is considered "exotic" now. The rest of the description fit more or less, but not the country.

He's talking about Goat.

Hi Jim,

Greek translation ready. I checked it as much as I could for consistency. My only problem is the capital letters but, as you said, it can't be made perfect, there are several differences between English and Greek shortcut keys. And yes, "mnemonic" comes from "mneme" which is "memory".

Hope this helps, and best of luck with your project. I tested the client and its fairly good and lightweight, as advertised. I'll put it in my signature for promotion as well.

Based on your logic, I would bet that he's Greek 

Hi Jim,

I came across several capital English letters among the strings. Not sure what I'm supposed to translate there. I understand they are shortcuts of some sort, but I can't see what they do in the client.

Any hints?

Either you think you're mining GG but you're not, or GG is a totally screwed blockchain.

Let's assume for a moment that you are the only one in the world mining GG.

With 350 MH/s of a 5870 (having taken into account a large stales percentage) you should be solving a difficulty=1 block (2^32 hashes) every 12.2 seconds. Being that expected block generation interval is 15 seconds and retargeting is every 16 blocks, in a few minutes after you start mining with that 5870, difficulty should adjust to about 1.23 (give or take variance) and stay there as long as you keep on mining. 

However, every time I looked at it lately, GG difficulty is from 0.06 to 0.12, which means that the average hashpower mining it is 20-40 MH/s altogether.

To prove my point, I did mine GG with a 5870 about a month ago, just for fun, and the difficulty adjusted within a few retargets from 0.06 to 1.3-1.6. When I stopped, it went back to 0.06. Strangely enough, I was getting only about 70% of the blocks , which means someone else was getting the other 30% which would be impossible if they were mining with only 20-40 MH/s as the previous difficulty as suggesting.

So, I guess something is wrong either with your claims, or with your calculations, or with the blockchain algo itself.

I just joined in and started. It should be done by Monday/Tuesday. Sooner if anyone else joins in. If not, you'll need at least 1 proofreader.

Not really.

It could be that the CIO of HP (or IBM or Dell) found out about BTC and pushed a "management software" update to all the company's managed hosts, and all the customer managed hosts. The low profile required for such software would explain the lack of transaction processing.

It could be a drug cartel (some of these guys have more money than governments do) that wants to setup a competing site to crush the Silk Road and would definitely want to be able to manipulate BTC price. So they hire a few geeks, get them to sign a nice NDA punished by death, setup a huge distributed mining farm, and obviously don't give a shit about transaction processing. ArtForz comes to mind, he hasn't been around for a month and a half. 

If you haven't put your tinfoil hat on, please put it on now:

It might as well be a government, the IMF, the IIF or whatever else would justify a tinfoil hat.

Well, all miners have already made a risky investment. The possibility that someone would come up with a massive ASIC farm before they manage to break even was there from the beginning. The possibility of a botnetfest was also there. Miners should have been aware of it when they were making their investment decision.

Those who did not consider these and other possibilities (such as BTCUSD drop in price or difficulty increase) are obviously having a nasty surprise, and they probably will have more in the future.

As D&T and BadBear said, this is not personal, this is business.

Oh boy, I never thought that 2 people could pwn each other simultaneously.

True. It'also true that most of this debt is bought with the intention to be flipped to a greater fool. Does this apply here?

I probably don't get foreign humor. Never mind me

Also, I probably can't avoid being bitter and pessimistic about the current situation in my country.

I hope this will change.

Cheers.

I'll repeat what I said above in other words.

When someone thinks about the answer to the question "What kind of money should I use, if I find myself without a fiat money system?", the answer for the past few thousand years at least has been "Gold". Hence no foresight, but rather "backsight" in that sense. No need to reinvent the wheel.

This is what Bitcoin will have to compete with, and it should better focus on the advantages it has in that battle, instead of trying to dominate.

Not so fast guys. I understand you might get excited with such a story, if you don't know the local situation.

These networks are a complete joke with 95% comprising of utterly useless offers for services and stuff. I'm currently in one of these towns  (Volos) for other business, and virtually nobody has heard of this thing. Plus they're all dragging along a socialist mentality of "fairness" and "equality" which deters any serious investor, and therefore any possibility of a real market developing there. Yes, of course, the people behind it are idealists, with not much practical business or economic experience

I've tried to enter into some discussions about Bitcoin in various relevant forums. At best, I got a response that "I need to read more about it some time". At worst, I was devnulled.

So, in short response to the subject: Not yet really.

Sure, they can use Paypal.

Seriously now, no bank is able to transfer money if they don't go through SWIFT. There are no bank information systems that work without SWIFT clearance when the transfers are international. No bank manager would take the offer of his IT staff to do transfers through "SSH tunnels" or any other tunnels for that matter.

It's a little known but most powerful monopoly, and it's no wonder that central banks would want it to be there in the first place. There is no other structure or organization who can take the responsibility to ensure that 100M$ credit/debit will get from A to B to pay for filling up Panamax carriers. Therefore no bank would trust any alternative. Full circle.

Bitcoins might be a solution, but not until you can get at least 2 banks agreeing to use them for transactions between them.

It might be a better idea to lobby the Iranian government, instead of the Iranian people, as was suggested earlier in the thread. However, this will probably be much more difficult to do, as Bitcoin will meet direct competition from gold. And Bitcoin will lose, at least for the foreseeable future.  

Αν κρίνεις από τα 60 δισ. που έφυγαν από τις τράπεζες τα τελευταία 4 χρόνια, δεν πρέπει να είναι και πολύ δύσκολο . Έτσι κι αλλιώς, τι σχέση έχει αυτό με τα Bitcoins? Πώς θα καταλάβουν ο παππούς και η γιαγιά τι στην ευχή είναι αυτό το πράμα, όταν δεν μπορούν να καταλάβουν τι είναι οι υπολογιστές;

Since you're talking about hoppers, and to confirm the robustness of DGM, I had used EclipseMC as a backup during a bithopper week-long session. My earnings on Eclipse were only 1% less than PPS-equivalent.

I apologize for being wrong, and let me put things right.

Thank you, too, Matthew for promoting this feature and donating for it.

I'm not changing my mind however, and this is exactly how it's been working out for me. There are indeed, few cases where someone from my "ignored" squad posts something worthwhile reading. If this happens, I am sure to find it quoted under someone else's post. If the response beyond the quote attracts my attention, as was the case here with rjk, I won't miss that important post. If the response is equally worthless, I'll pass on the quote too.

Thanks, rjk.

I cannot see most replies in this thread, as most contributors are already on ignore, but I must say that it's an excellent idea. Thank you Theymos!

Now let's hope that the new forum software (whenever it comes) will also support positive "voting" of some kind for users, so that it offers encouragement as well.

Glad I'm out of the trollfest:

No, but it has appreciated significantly over the past few years 

1. EUR will drop to cents of the dollar when Germany decides to leave. Hold on.

2. Most money left in the Greek banks is from pensioners and people that can afford to lose them.

3. My backyard is a fiscal paradise, according to your assessment of the behaviour of smart money